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Spc. Patrick Edward Myers, of Spartanburg, S.C., was
sentenced to 3 1/2 years in military prison for fatally shooting
22-year-old Pfc. Isaac Lawrence Young, of Ash Grove, Mo., in the face in
September while they were watching a football game at an apartment in
Killeen, Texas.

Myers was also busted to private and will receive a bad-conduct discharge, the Associated Press reported.

Police
said three men were inside the apartment on Sunday, Sept. 23, watching a
football game and drinking alcohol when one of the men produced a
handgun, handled it in an "unsafe manner," and shot the victim in the
face.

An arrest affidavit obtained by the Associated Press in
September said Myers apparently pointed a gun at the victim's head to
scare him and stop the hiccups.

Myers said he thought the gun had dummy rounds when it was discharged.

The
case was tried in military court on the Central Texas Army post because
the both victim and suspect were soldiers. Myers has been in the Bell
County Jail on a $1 million bond.

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